Xbox 360 External Hard drive expansion

DOughDOughBIRD1 · Dec 25, 2015

I have a 200GB hard drive that I've been using for about 5 years on my xbox. Back then it only let you format 30GB of it. But I saw that they removed that restriction earlier this year. How do I format the rest of the hard drive so I can use the rest of
the 170GB?

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KronJ0b · Dec 25, 2015

seagate 4TB not recognized

Hello,

I have this external drive:

http://www.seagate.com/ca/en/extern...-drives/expansion-hard-drive/?sku=STBV4000100

It works on my PC no problem, but the xbox one does not know it exists. Plugging it in does nothing. I have tried:

* all the steps in the official troubleshooting guide

* All USB ports on the xbox, hard reboots. ( it is fully updated also )

* formatting the drive clean

* removing the existing NTFS partition completely.

this is the drive:

http://www.seagate.com/ca/en/extern...-drives/expansion-hard-drive/?sku=STBV4000100

Does anyone have any ideas?

Cryofuse · Dec 25, 2015

Xbox 360 2TB External USB Hard Drive Requirements?

Hi,

I would like to know if there are any minimum requirements for adding an external hard drive to the Xbox 360, apart from:

2 TB Maximum capacity

USB 2.0

I have ordered a Seagate Expansion External 3.5" Desktop 2TB USB 3.0 Hard Drive and would like to know if it is compatible?
(For my Xbox ONE I have the 4TB model of the above which works perfectly).

Does the Xbox 360 support both 2.5" and 3.5" external drives?

Does the external hard drive require a power supply?

Are USB 3.0 hard drives compatible?

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

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Irixion · Dec 26, 2015

If you're talking about an external, just have the Xbox format the drive, and you'll be able to access the full storage allotment. Keep in mind though, that when formatting a drive, you lose all information on that, so you'll want to back up your important
files first.

Obsessive Power

Hi,

External hard drives are not fast enough for Xbox Series X|S titles. Unfortunately you can't play these games off slow USB external hard drives. They need either be installed internally or to an optional Xbox Series X|S Expansion card.

StuartATrueRed

Xbox Series X|S games can only be installed on the console's internal storage or the external Seagate SSD card. Link here. External drives are too slow for those games. The external hard drive can only be used to install backward compatible games (Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One).

Francia J.

You're welcome and thank you so much for the update. Is there an external hard drive or expansion card plugged into your console?

At this point, one of the possible reasons now is a corrupted external hard drive or expansion card.

StuartATrueRed

If it is a Series X|S games, then the game can only be installed on the internal drive or on a external Seagate storage expansion card

https://www.xbox.com/en-Gb/accessories/hard-drives/seagate-expansion-card or a Western Digital one

https://www.westerndigital.com/prod...sion-card-for-xbox-ssd?sku=WDBMPH0010BNC-WCSN These can store Xbox Series X|S games and be launched from them too.

Any backward Compatible title (Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One) can be installed on an external drive and played from there too.

JoshuaValdez2

Hi,

Current external hard drives are USB 3.0 5,400 RPM mechanical hard drives. These drives are very slow compared to the Expansion card. You won't be able to run Series X/S games from current external hard drives, not even the 2.5" external SSD drives either.
But, you will be able to archive your Series X/S games to these drives to save downloading again.

The expansion card can run all compatible Xbox games. Which will be Series X/S, Xbox One and the BC Xbox 360 and original Xbox games on the BC list.

Xbox One and other Backwards compatible games will load a lot faster on either the internal storage or the expansion card than they would if you ran them off your external hard drive.

Microsoft has a video on YouTube showing 'The Outer Worlds' loading in just 11 seconds on a Series X/S SSD, compared to nearly 60 seconds on Xbox One.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wCX0n9Jci4

I see. So how would i be able to transfer everything i have on my old hard drive to the new expansion card?

Xbox 360 External Hard drive expansion